Once in a Lifetime (box set)
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| Box set by Talking Heads | ||||
| Released | November 18, 2003 | |||
| Genre | New wave, art punk | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Tony Bongiovi, Brian Eno, Nick Launay, Steve Lillywhite, Lance Quinn, Mark Spector | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
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| The Guardian |  |
| Entertainment Weekly | A– |
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| The Village Voice | C |
Once in a Lifetime is a three-CD box set by the Talking Heads, released in the United States by Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino in 2003. The set also includes a DVD, an expanded version of the music video compilation Storytelling Giant. The discs are packaged in a wide horizontal book that recalls a CD longbox, featuring paintings by Russian artists Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov and with art direction by Stefan Sagmeister (for which he received a 2005 Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package). Sagmeister would work with David Byrne and Brian Eno on their 2008 album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.
Only one previously unreleased song appears in this release: the Naked outtake "In Asking Land". This song was later completed by Byrne and released as "Carnival Eyes" on his solo album Rei Momo. Other non-album tracks are: "Sugar on My Tongue", a 1975 studio demo, dating from when the band was still a trio (minus Jerry Harrison); the 1977 single "Love → Building on Fire" and its B-side, "I Wish You Wouldn't Say That"; and two Naked-era songs - "Sax and Violins" (finished in 1991 for the soundtrack to the film Until the End of the World) and "Lifetime Piling Up" (finished in 1992 for the Sand in the Vaseline compilation). These non-album tracks had all been included on the 1992 compilation Sand in the Vaseline, though three non-album tracks (1975 studio demo "I Want to Live" and 1992's "Gangster of Love" and "Popsicle") remain exclusive to that compilation, in terms of CD releases. (Remastered versions of "I Want to Live", "Gangster of Love" and "Popsicle" were issued on the download-only release Bonus Rarities and Outtakes in 2006.)
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